turandot other poems, john ashbery

Book Description: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, N.Y., 1953. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. A very good and tight softcover copy of Ashbery's first book. Limited to 300 copies. SIGNED/INSCRIBED TO KIRK RUGGLES BY THE AUTHOR. A very decent copy with the usual small tears and chips to edges. = WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION. = WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 33 YEARS. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 001191

Book Description: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York., 1953. First edition. Octavo. pp [28]. Four drawings by Jane Freilicher. Sewn patterned wrappers with title label to front. One of 300 copies, this one being signed by the author on the title-page. His first book.Spine splitting at head. Covers slightly creased at edges. Very good. Bookseller Inventory # ASHBERYJ002337

Book Description: Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, 1953. Book Condition: Near fine. Jane Freilicher (illustrator). First and limited edition. 8vo. Ashbery's first book. One of 300 copies printed. Rebound in three-quarter goatskin over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. A handsome copy. Bookseller Inventory # 006697

Book Description: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1953. Wraps. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated, approx. 25 pgs. A rare signed copy of Ashbery's first chapbook, in very good condition overall. Spine professionally rebacked, light chipping along cover edges and spine, very light browning to cover edges. Minor rippling to front cover from rebacking. Text lightly browned with age, faint offsetting to facing pgs from illustrations. Interior otherwise clean, binding snug. Poems by John Ashbery, with four b&w drawings by Jane Freilicher. Bookseller Inventory # 67057

Book Description: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1953. Wraps. First edition. 8vo, unpg. pamphlet, saddle-stitched in decorative patterned wrappers with printed label on front One of 300 copies of Ashbery's first book, printed under the direction Nell Blaine in the important series of poet/artist collaborative books produced by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and its charismatic director John Bernard Myers. Ownership siginature in green ink, dated 1961, likely of poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald, on the inside front wrapper. A very delicate publication, prone to severe wear. Kermani A1 Light chipping to edges, as usual, partial split to wrappers along spine, hint of sun toward edges; ownership inscription on inside front wrapper. Very good. Bookseller Inventory # 203063

Book Description: New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery. First Edition, 1953. A Fine copy in decorative pink and brown printed sewn wrappers, with front cover label, as issued. One of 300 copies, the whole edition. Trivial rubbing to edges of covers. A clean and nearly immaculate example. In original publisher's envelope. Unpaginated. Illustrated with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. 15 pages of text. Ashbery's First Book. Bookseller Inventory # Q02719

Book Description: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1953. Decorated wraps. Jane Freilicher (illustrator). First Edition. Ashbery's first book, a 23-page chapbook in sewn decorated paper wraps, one of only 300 copies printed. Illustrated with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. In this copy two of the plates are duplicated giving a total of six plates. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet to Herbert with love and also INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the artist to Herbert with "my love, too." Both inscriptions are on the title page and appear to be contemporary. Wrappers are slightly darkened with two round oily stains on the rear, not too dark. The front wrapper has one short closed tear neatly repaired internally with tape and a sliver chip on the lower right corner with the detached piece still present. Very Good to Near Fine example of this scarce book. Bookseller Inventory # 010999

Book Description: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1953. Decorated wrappers with label. First edition of the poet's first book. 8vo. One of 300 copies. A fine, fresh copy with the fragile yapp-edges but slightly creased. Bookseller Inventory # 21819